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Well, whatever the canon ending is

I honestly have mixed feelings. I enjoyed it overall, but I would have preferred less linearity, more variety in the gameplay (you.. basically do nothing but shoot :/, which is especially bad for non combat-focused characters) and, more importantly, some side content ('find Ralphie posters' just isn't particularly fun). On the matter of the story, I liked the fact that they manage to integrate a tiny bit of backstory without contradicting the courier's blank slate status, but I'm a little confused on some details, and Ulysses' masterplan felt a little disappointing: It's not a terrible DLC by any means, it's actually fairly good, but it doesn't resonate with me quite as much as Dead Money did and doesn't have the wealth of content Old World Blues had. Still found it worth my money though, and the atmosphere was excellent and reminded of the original title's concept art (I actually feared it would feature a single-color palette, but it was actually more varied than that).

He makes some fair points, although he comes across as a little whiny. Anyway, the DLC could have used some more open spaces/exploration/side content, but by no means the comparison to Call of Duty is a fair one.. but then again, any times someone doesn't like something it's Call of Duty in this day and age.

Playing it

It was kind of hilarious how Chris talked about the Burned Man having lip synching when the headwrap hides it anyway

I'm a little surprised this doesn't seem to have been covered here (may have missed it though), but Frayed Knights looks to be shaping up like a great indie dungeon crawler. . F.A.Q. A random interview on it. It's pretty close to release though I don't think the author has set any precise date. Either way, it's def. worth checking out.

Not at all. It's by far Bethesda's most ambitious title, but it's also their second worst. It's broken and empty, simply put.

The Creation Engine and Gamebryo are the same thing, essentially.

Portal is free until Tuesday.

Certain gear, like weapons or shields only add their respective stats for the stance that uses them. Hope that helps, I never played with Anjali besides the demo so I don't really remember the specifics for her. IIRC (Alvin said that I think?) the defense stance borrows the stats from the last stance you used.

And? The dialogue is still done by a different writer. Of course, it may be different in the full game, but in the trailer Max could very well be another character going by how they pretty much ignored the way he usually speaks.

Max doesn't sound like Max.. I can dig the new setting, and I guess I'll still wait and see, but so far they're missing the whole "Noir bordering on self-parody" (which then went into conscious self-parody at least in parts with the 2nd title).

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While that in itself doesn't bother me (Fallout has never been really consistent with its SCIENCE!, which ended up making the post-apocalyptic setting much.. less post-apocalyptic), it clashes with a huge chunk of Arcade Gannon's initial character and presentation. I mean, if the player can easily make stimpaks and super-stimpaks, why are the followers even searching for new methods? EDIT: Yup, this is pretty much an off-topic but since Josh is here and he did write Arcade (IIRC)...

2 RPG there of which: one is not an indie, and whether the other qualifies as indie or not is highly suspect. Not doing good.

Did Industry Gamers really said that the game sold despite an NPC that was deemed 'racist'? Wow.

Uh, sure? You haven't provided any reason for this, and, uhm, I didn't even see any indication of the game being turn-based, frankly (unless you're talking about Final Fantasy Tactics, but I wasn't talking about that).

That's quite hopefully the most tedious video I've ever seen. Doesn't really do a good job at selling the game.

You guys bought the game right? Can't youst just.. look at the credits?

Lethal takedown.

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I was mostly jokingly noticing how the contrarians have finally emerged.. whether they're right or not, I have no idea so far since I didn't get the chance to play the game (full or leak), and I won't for a while, but my boss and the guy who reviewed it for us had positive things to say and I generally tend to trust them.

So, after the enthusiastic first impressions, I've already started seeing people arguing that it's overhyped, not really enough Deus Ex-y, and clearly flawed. When will it start to suck, so that it goes down in price and I can buy it?

The Devil May Cry rumor has been floating for a while, there's a new Umbrella website that could support Resident Evil 6, not sure on the PS3 FPS from EA, I don't really believe the other rumors listed on there (an Enslaved sequel? did it sell well at all? then again, I guess everything is possible, but hasn't Ninja Theory their hands full on DmC?).